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Do test-optional policies increase diversity?

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However, critics of test optional like to trot out this study from 2014 , suggesting test-optional policies do not increase diversity. Finally, admissions, opportunity, culture, and policy are complex. The next two shows those same institutions, broken out by college, year, and ethnicity: First, African American and then Hispanic.

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Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy

University Business

Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberal arts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.

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Fort Lewis College Names First Indigenous Presidential Finalist

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Heather Shotton In a historic move that signals a significant step toward reconciliation with its past, Fort Lewis College (FLC) has named Dr. Heather J. She brings more than two decades of experience in higher education, having worked at both small liberal arts colleges and large research universities.

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Small College America – Profile: Davidson College

Edu Alliance Journal

April 21, 2025, by Dean Hoke : With this profile of Davidson College, I complete the tenth and final entry in my series exploring small colleges across the United States. Background Founded in 1837 by Presbyterian leaders, Davidson College is a private liberal arts college located in Davidson, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte.

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Protecting Trans Rights? Disability Inclusion? International Students? Why It’s All the Same Battle

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It echoes in the lives of disabled people, especially Deaf and neurodivergent people, whose insights are essential to many fields in school and college education, design, and accessibility, yet who are too often excluded from schools, jobs, and public life. The policies harming these communities are not just oversights.

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A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D. That desire to understand the world only grew from there, and she became the first in her family to attend college.

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Not All Opinions Deserve a Microphone in the Classroom

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alice Ragland live and teach in Ohio, one of the growing number of states passing legislation that claims to protect free speech and intellectual diversity in college classrooms by requiring that all opinions be heard. Dr. Alice Ragland is an Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the Columbus College of Art & Design.